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Trump says he has approved Oracle's bid for the US operations of TikTok “in concept” — - TikTok app store ban put on hold for a week after Trump nod — New TikTok Global to donate $5 billion to education foundation — Donald Trump gave his blessing to Oracle Corp.'s bid …
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Trump says he wants the $5B pledged from the companies making the new US-based TikTok venture put toward teaching US children “the real history of our country” — President Donald Trump said Saturday he wants $5 billion from companies creating a new U.S.-based TikTok venture …
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US delays TikTok ban by a week, as company says Oracle and Walmart may take 20% stake in TikTok Global's pre-IPO round, host US user data and computer systems — Well... that was pointless. — After debasing the idea of free commerce in the U.S in the name of a misplaced security concern …
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ByteDance says that it is not aware of the news that TikTok is setting up a $5B education fund in the US as part of a deal to continue operating in the US — NINGBO, China (Reuters) - TikTok owner Bytedance said in a social media post on Sunday that it was the first time it had heard …
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Twitter says it will investigate after users find its preview of a photo, with a Black person and a white person, more frequently displayed the white person — The first look a Twitter user gets at a tweet might be an unintentionally racially biased one. — Twitter said Sunday …
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US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday — - A U.S. judge in California halted the Trump administration's ban on downloads of the Chinese-owned app WeChat early Sunday.
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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it's launching a bank under a new regulatory framework in Wyoming, reducing its reliance on third-party providers — Uniswap has officially gone live with its governance token, dubbed UNI. — One billion tokens have been minted, according to a blog post … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How “Huang's Law”, gains in AI chip performance even faster than Moore's Law, moves data processing from the cloud to the edge and may explain Nvidia's Arm deal — The rule that the same dollar buys twice the computing power every 18 months is no longer true, but a new law … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
How Nvidia's bets on gaming and AI transformed it from a niche player in the high-end graphics market in the mid-90s into the most valuable US chip company — For Jensen Huang, the landmark bid for Arm cements his ambition to supplant Intel — In the midst of the pandemic … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
After losing out to Apple and Google on smartphones, Facebook's big bets on VR and AR can be seen as attempting to control the next big hardware platforms — Facebook's foray into virtual and augmented reality, which it doubled down on this week, is a bet on where the future of online social interaction is heading.| Clive Thompson / Wired: |
YouTube taught its recommendation system how to recognize and demote conspiratorial videos, but organic link-sharing and bot promotion are thwarting its efforts — From flat-earthers to QAnon to Covid quackery, the video giant is awash in misinformation. Can AI keep the lunatic fringe from going viral?
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Starting Oct. 1, all new source code repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” as part the company's effort to abandon non-inclusive terms — All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” starting October 1, 2020.Sponsor Posts
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